The Digital Reconstruction of Healthcare: Transitioning from Brick and Mortar to Virtual Care

About John HalamkaPaul Cerrato

Paul Cerrato MA is  a senior research analyst at the Mayo Clinic. He has more than 30 years of experience working in healthcare as a medical journalist research analyst clinician and educator. He has written extensively on clinical medicine clinical decision support electronic health records protected health information security and practice management. He has served as the Editor of InformationWeek Healthcare Executive Editor of Contemporary OB/GYN Senior Editor of RN Magazine and contributing writer/editor for the Yale University School of Medicine the American Academy of Pediatrics InformationWeek Medscape Healthcare Finance News IMedicalapps.com and MedpageToday. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has listed Mr. Cerrato as one of the most influential columnists in healthcare IT. He has served as a guest lecturer or faculty member at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Harvard Medical School and Vermont College. Among his achievements are 6 editorial awards from the American Business Mediaoften referred to as the Pulitzer Prize of business journalismand the Gold Award from the American Society of Healthcare Publications Editors for best signed editorial. John D. Halamka MD MS president of the Mayo Clinic Platform leads a portfolio of new digital platform businesses focused on transforming health by leveraging artificial intelligence machine learning and an ecosystem of partners for the Mayo Clinic. He is a practicing emergency medicine physician. Previously Dr. Halamka was executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center for Beth Israel Lahey Health in Massachusetts. Previously he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years. In addition he was the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. As the leader for innovation at the $7 billion Beth Israel Lahey Health he oversaw digital health relationships with industry academia and government worldwide. As a Harvard Medical School professor he served the George W. Bush administration the Obama administration and governments around the world planning their health care information (IT) strategies. In his role at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Dr. Halamka was responsible for all clinical financial administrative and academic IT.